Friday, August 28, 2009

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"Maggie McElroy felt her soul spiral away from her in the year following her husband's death; she felt strange wherever she was."
-- The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
According to the back cover, this is a novel about "the hidden world of elite cuisine in modern China." I am reading this as my fiction choice for the Spice of Life challenge. I am particularly looking forward to it because I have been jonesing for good Chinese food lately -- one of the things I miss the most now that I don't live in San Francisco any more.
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I do not know who started this, but it sucked me in when I read it on We Be Reading. It will probably pop up on facebook soon enough.
"Using only books you have read this year (2009), cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. It’s a lot harder than you think!"Here is my life, according to literature (links to reviews):
Describe Yourself: The Innocent
How do you feel: Great Expectations
Describe where you currently live: The Amateur Marriage
If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Atget’s Paris
Your favorite form of transportation: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Your best friend is: The Fixer
You and your friends are: Kiss Kiss
What’s the weather like: All Quiet on the Western Front
Favorite time of day: The Mating Season
If your life was a: Crime and Punishment
What is life to you: The Floating Opera
Your fear: Underworld
What is the best advice you have to give: Water the Bamboo
Thought for the Day: Sometimes a Great Notion
How I would like to die: Au Revoir to All That
My soul’s present condition: Mere ChristianityOTHER LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHIESThe Noisy Daisy
(Please leave a comment with a link and I will add it here.)
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